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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 8am-2pm
Posted Date
04/01/2025
Salary Range: $21.24 - 24.18 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
23380

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is seeking to hire a Child Care Center Assistant to join the Department of Psychiatry. You will assist Program Nurses with unit activities and Lead Therapists with therapeutic activities. Primary duties include:

  • Implement behavioral and skill development programs in individual or small group situations
  • Implement the behavioral management program for each patient, including providing appropriate feedback to patients determined by the lead therapist
  • Set and enforce appropriate limits on patients' social and emotional behavior in the classroom through prescribed management techniques as determined by the lead Classroom Therapist
  • Instruct patients in basic developmental or academic skills, employing materials, and curriculum methods
  • Remediate basic skill deficits of patients by employing prescribed remedial or special education methods and materials
  • Instruct patients in basic self care and daily living skills such as toileting, self feeding, hygiene, and dressing skills
  • Implement various recreational, skill, behavioral, or socialization activities in groups with patients on the unit
  • Written and oral reports on patient progress
  • Substitution for other staff
Salary range: $21.24/hr - $24.18/hr

Job Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Education, Psychology, or related field (preferred)

Previous experience working with young developmentally disabled and children with autism in psychiatric unit and therapeutic settings

Previous coursework in autism and intervention

Willingness to learn specified techniques to provide instruction and manage behaviors for young developmentally disabled children.

Skill in speaking clearly and distinctly using appropriate vocabulary grammar to obtain and convey information to individuals or groups in various professional mental health disciplines and to parents.

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with persons in various educational and professional mental health disciplines.

Skill in working as part of a team; collaborating with colleagues.

Ability to accept equivocal circumstances in special education classroom and psychiatric hospital situations and take action when answers to a problem are not readily apparent


As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.